Word: alertness
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Even so, Brezhnev seemed far more alert last week than he did at the 1979 Vienna summit with Jimmy Carter, when he nearly toppled down a flight of stairs. In Prague he attended a concert and two receptions that required long periods of standing. He spent at least one morning in taxing discussions about the Polish crisis with party officials from other countries. But he was rarely seen in public, and between congress sessions spent long periods napping, either in his suite at the presidential palace overlooking Prague's historic Charles Bridge and the Vltava River, or in special...
Ever since that fateful day in Dallas in 1963, journalists covering the President have been especially alert to the possibility that someone might try to take his life. That knowledge has brought a tinge of apprehension to even the most routine presidential assignments. TIME'S Dirck Halstead had just such a prosaic task last week: taking pictures of President Reagan at the Washington Hilton. Suddenly gunshots rang out. Halstead, who photographed one of the assassination attempts on Gerald Ford in 1975, was able to take some of the dramatic pictures that accompany this week's cover stories. Says...
...rushed upstairs to the briefing room and tried to convey a sense of calm. In stead, he was perspiring, his voice shook, and his hands trembled. He assured reporters that there was no command vacancy, that communications were open with the Vice President, and that no spe- cial military-alert measures were necessary. But then he blundered. Asked, "Who's making the decisions?" he replied...
...succession. Characterisitcally, he put himself next in line after Bush, ignoring two officials who happen to be elected: the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate. Haig's willingness to ask Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 to remove the low-level alert he had ordered so the Secretary of State would not look bad in front of the press is just another example of Haig's me-first theory of government...
...impossible to guarantee that future false alerts will be stopped so quickly. Tension and pressure that accompanies an alert would be heightened at a time of crisis between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...